Chapter 893: Ancient Farming by Internet Celebrities (27)
People are like this. They have the nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, bully the weak and fear the hard. If you look at it as a trading team of a big tribe, who would dare to offend? It's too late to be polite.
So, this journey has been quite smooth.
Even though the official trading day has not yet arrived, there are already many stalls in the market.
Xu Yin took the lead and walked in front, watching as he walked, feeling like visiting a street stall.
Among the people setting up stalls, are there any gamers like her, or are they all NPCs?
After walking around for a while, I almost got an idea of the market: wild fruits and vegetables were the most popular, followed by stone pots, stone knives, animal meat, animal skins, etc., but the ones on display were all not-so-high-quality animal skins.
Alieh shook his head towards Achun: "I didn't see any beautiful long-haired animal skins."
“Just wait a little longer, it’s not the official trading day yet.”
Xu Yin listened for a while, turned around and asked the couple: "Do you want to change to long-haired animal skins?"
…”
Seeing them stunned, Xu Yin nodded in understanding: "Yes, we really need to keep warm in winter. It would be great if we could find cotton..."
Suddenly I remembered, wasn’t the stretch of reeds along the shallow river beach where we rested the night before yesterday?
Xingming’s eyes lit up instantly: That’s right! If there is no cotton, reed flowers will do!
I decided immediately to stay in the reed swamp for a day on my way back, cut more reed flowers and tie them into reed mats and quilts. If possible, I would also design a reed jacket with better wrapping properties for the tribal people.
It's still early before the return trip. The trade fair will be held for ten days. During these ten days, people from other tribes will come to set up stalls one after another to exchange their surplus supplies with each other.
The supplies brought by Xu Yin and his party were the most popular.
The salt brought out by other tribes is yellow and black with a lot of impurities, but the salt she brings out is white, free of impurities, and has the highest saltiness;
Other tribes brought out stone and wooden tools, but she brought out pottery.
Pottery, which is lighter and more convenient than stone pots, more exquisite than wood and can withstand high temperatures, has attracted countless people.
The price is indeed not cheap, but it is not as expensive as they imagined. Five pieces of ordinary animal skins or one piece of long-haired animal skins can take away a large clay pot. The smallest pottery bowl can be taken away with an ordinary animal skin.
On the contrary, a small bottle of hemostatic powder is the most expensive, requiring two pieces of long-haired animal skins to exchange.
Of course, there are good and bad quality of long-haired animal skins. The skins of long-haired foxes or long-haired white bears hunted from the cold northern regions can be worth three or five pieces of long-haired rabbit skins.
Everyone flocked to it. The soft and smooth fox fur or the extremely warm white bear fur were hard to come by. Who couldn't get a piece of long-haired rabbit fur?
“I have a long-haired animal skin, I want to replace it with a clay pot!”
“I have two long-haired animal skins in exchange for two clay pots. Can you give me a clay bowl?”
“How many clay pots can I exchange for this pile of ordinary animal skins?”
The pottery brought by the Xu tribe and the Kuahe tribe during this trip was sold out on the first day of the market.
"Huh? No more? I went to collect some animal skins and wanted to bring them back in exchange for a clay pot."
“There is really no pottery left. Do you want Zhixue Powder?” Seeing that no one was interested in Zhixue Powder, Xu Yin took the initiative to recommend it.
“Zhixue Powder? What is it used for?”
“If you are scratched by a ferocious beast or injured by a fall, when the bleeding stops, sprinkle Hemostasis on the wound to stop the bleeding quickly.”
"real or fake?"
“Is this a miracle medicine?”
Everyone didn’t believe it at first. How could the witch doctor’s magic medicine be easily traded?
Until a member of the central tribe accidentally fell into the river and was bitten by a water animal, he dragged his **** legs back to the tribe. In the past, in this case, he had to either ask the witch doctor to give him medicine or wait to die.
In the mood to give it a try, his son took two pieces of long-haired animal skins and exchanged them for a bottle to stop the bleeding. The next day, he heard that the leg was no longer bleeding, and there was no redness, swelling or pus. On the third day, the wound had scabbed. .
So, is it really a miracle medicine?
A swarm of swarms of people flocked to Xu’s tribe’s stall:
“I want a bottle of hemostatic powder!” “I want two bottles!”
Things that can save lives are still snatched away no matter how expensive they are.
This time it was faster, in less than half a day, all the hemostatic powder brought were replaced by animal skins.
Those who didn't grab it squatted in front of the stall and refused to leave: "Is it really gone? I'm just a step late. I have animal skins and several pieces of long hair."
Xu Yin: “…”
Judging by her voice and figure, she was obviously a woman, but she was a tall and sturdy woman, two heads taller than Xu Yin.
“I’m really sorry. All the pottery and styptic powder have been replaced.”
“Then what else do you have?”
…“…do you want some straw sandals?”
Xu Yin saw that she was wrapped in an animal skin, but her feet were bare, and the heels were seriously cracked, so she recommended straw sandals that no one was interested in yet.
After the women of the Xu tribe learned to weave straw sandals from her, they would sit down and knit when they had free time. Just like some girls who like to play with ropes, they loved weaving straw sandals and weaving them into flowers.
The straw sandals now are no longer the simple ones she wore when she first came here. They are not only strong, but also very delicate and beautiful.
“What are straw sandals used for?”
“It’s the same as my feet. It protects my feet and keeps them warm when the weather gets cold.”
“I don’t know how to do it, how can I do it?”
"I teach you."
After Xu Yin taught her to put it on, the other party stood up and stamped her feet. She seemed a little uncomfortable, but it was indeed very warm. She immediately opened the large package of animal skins twisted in her hands and took out a piece of super thick and warm long-haired animal skin.
“Here, this is the best animal skin I have hunted this year. Can I exchange it for two pairs? I also have a younger brother.”
Xu Yin: “…”
Sisters, you are so honest. You can take away such a big piece of long-haired animal skin, let alone two pairs.
Xu Yin found out the straw sandals suitable for her and her brother and put them in them according to the foot shape she said: "Look at what else you need. You can take whatever you want. If you don't want it, I'll put some salt in it for you."
The other party hurriedly waved his hand: "I can't afford such a good long-haired animal skin anymore. I have three pieces of ordinary long-haired animal skins and five pieces of short-haired animal skins left. I can't exchange for this much, right?"
Xu Yin smiled and said: "The piece you gave me is worth so much."
“Ah, so that’s it!”
The other party happily took the eight pairs of straw sandals and a small bottle of salt. The small bottle containing the salt seemed to be made of pottery, which made her even happier.
As a result, many people flocked to Xu Yin’s stall:
“Are straw sandals really warm?”
“Can a piece of short-haired animal skin be exchanged for a pair of straw sandals? Then I want a pair.”
"Can I exchange it for something else? I have some fruit, and it's delicious."
Xu Yin glanced at the fruit the other person handed her. It was red, like an apple. The other person thought she was worried about the poison, so she took one and ate it, "Just eat it like this, it tastes great."
Xu Yin wiped it clean and took a bite. It was really a wild apple.
“How many of these fruits do you have?”
"There are so many more." The other party opened the animal skin package and showed it to her. There were a dozen more, but they were not as big as the ones he took out.
Xu Yin asked for both and gave him two pairs of straw sandals.
When they saw that the fruit could be exchanged, the people who were squatting nearby and watching without the animal skins in their hands also rushed up.
A few people also took out handfuls of wild vegetables. Since the fruit can be exchanged, can wild vegetables be used?
(End of this chapter)